What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On 2006-06-14 09:42:25 -0400, torbenm at app-1.diku.dk (Torben Ægidius 
Mogensen) said:

> It takes longer for the average
> programmer to get the program working in the dynamically typed
> language.

Though I agree with much of your post I would say that many here find 
the opposite to be true - it takes us longer to get a program working 
in a statically typed language because we have to keep adding/changing 
things to get the compiler to stop complaining and actually compile and 
run a program which would be perfectly permissible in a dynamically 
typed language such as common lisp - for example - heterogeneous lists 
and forward references to as yet non-existent functions.